jerry west is no fool. i dunno if i'd ever wanna deal with that guy as a gm. although, he did give up draw gooden and goron girichek for mike miller, and i think gooden has shown to be a better player.
i wouldnt trade marbury for swift and bonzi wells straight up, because we need to package marbury along with some of our bad contracts (like allan houston). otherwise, marbury still a good player and probably more valuable to a team than wells ans swift combined. i DO want to trade marbury, becuase i dont think hes a "carry a franchise on his back" player, but id want to be able to better position myself for the future if i get rid of him, and adding swift/wells wouldnt be enough.
portland has a rich ass owner in paul allen (microsoft executive) who probably wants to win more than make money from owning the team (i think he ordered the gm nash to go after kidd). portland could be a good team to trade with because they have a lot of expiring contracts, some decent rookies, and an owner who wants to win. we could unload our contracts on them, i think. also, protalnd probably realizes that many free angents would NEVER sign with them, and their best shot at a premier PG like marbury is through a trade.